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 Books
Books by
by Astrid
Astrid Lindgren
Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi
Pippi Goes
Goes Aboard
Aboard
Pippi
Pippi in the South Seas
in the South Seas

Emil’s
Emil’s Clever
Clever Pig
Pig
Emil
Emil and the Great Escape
and the Great Escape
Emil
Emil and the Sneaky Rat
and the Sneaky Rat

Lotta
Lotta Says
Says ‘No!’
‘No!’
Lotta
Lotta Makes aa Mess
Makes Mess

Karlson
Karlson Flies
Flies Again
Again
Karlson
Karlson on the Roof
on the Roof
The World’s Best Karlson
The World’s Best Karlson

The
The Brothers
Brothers Lionheart
Lionheart

Ronia,
Ronia, the
the Robber’s
Robber’s Daughter
Daughter

Mio’s
Mio’s Kingdom
Kingdom

PIPPI GOES
PIPPI ABROAD
GOES ABROAD

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 Pippi Goes Aboard
Astrid Lindgren
Translated by Marianne Turner
Illustrated by Tony Ross

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Pippi still lives at
Villekulla Cottage

I
f a stranger, coming to the little Swedish
town, should one day happen to find himself
in a particular place on the outskirts, he
would see Villekulla Cottage. Not that the cottage
is much to look at: it is rather a tumble-down old
cottage with an overgrown garden round it, but
the stranger might perhaps pause to wonder who
lived there, and why there was a horse in the
porch. If it was really late and almost dark, and if
he caught sight of a little girl striding round the

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 garden looking as if she had no intention of
going to bed, he might think:
‘I wonder why that little girl’s mother doesn’t
see that she goes to bed? Other children are fast
asleep by this time.’
If the little girl came up to the gate—and she
would be certain to do so, because she enjoyed
talking to people—then he would have the
chance of taking a good look at her, and would
probably think:
‘She’s one of the freckliest and most red-
headed children I’ve ever seen.’
Afterwards perhaps he would think:
‘Freckles and red hair are really rather nice—at
least when a person has such a happy appearance
as this child.’
It would perhaps interest him to know the
name of this little red-head who was strolling
about by herself in the dusk, and if he was close
to the gate, he might ask:
‘What’s your name?’
A merry voice would reply:
‘Pippilotta Provisiona Gaberdina Dandeliona
Ephraims-daughter Longstocking, daughter of
Captain Ephraim Longstocking, formerly the
terror of the seas, now Cannibal King: but
everybody calls me Pippi!’
When she said that her father was a Cannibal

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 King, she firmly believed it, because he had once
been blown into the water and disappeared when
Pippi and he had been out sailing on the sea.
Since Pippi’s father was somewhat stout, she was
absolutely sure he had not been drowned. It
seemed reasonable to suppose that he had been
washed ashore on an island and become king over
all the cannibals there, and this is exactly what
Pippi thought had happened. If the traveller went
on chatting to Pippi, he would find out that,
except for a horse and a monkey called Mr
Nelson, she lived quite alone at Villekulla
Cottage. If he had a kind heart, he probably could
not help thinking:
‘How does the poor child live?’
He really need not have worried about that.
‘I’m rich as a troll,’ Pippi used to say. And she
was. She had a whole suitcaseful of golden coins
which her father had given her, and she managed
splendidly without either mother or father. Since
there was no one to tell her when to go to bed,
Pippi told herself. Sometimes she did not tell
herself until about ten o’clock, because Pippi had
never believed that it was necessary for children to
go to bed at seven. That was the time when you
had the most fun. So the stranger should not be
surprised at seeing Pippi striding round the
garden, although the sun had set and the air was

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 getting chilly, and Tommy and Annika had been
tucked up in bed for ages. Tommy and Annika
were Pippi’s playmates, who lived in the house
next to Villekulla Cottage. They had both a father
and a mother, and both the father and the mother
believed that it was best for children to go to bed
at seven.
If the stranger lingered after Pippi had said
goodnight and had left the gate, and if he saw
Pippi go up to the porch and lift the horse high
in her strong arms and carry him out into the
garden, he would surely rub his eyes and wonder
if he was dreaming.
‘What a remarkable child this is,’ he would say
to himself. ‘I do believe she can lift the horse!
This is the most remarkable child I’ve ever seen!’
In that he would be right. Pippi was the most
remarkable child—at least in that town. There
may be more remarkable children in other places,
but in that little town there was no one like Pippi
Longstocking, and nowhere in the world, neither
in that town nor anywhere else, was there anyone
so strong as she was.

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